Colin Powell
Colin Powell
Colin Luther Powell is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under U.S. President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005, the first African American to serve in that position. During his military career, Powell also served as National Security Advisor, as Commander of the U.S. Army Forces Commandand as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, holding the latter position during the Persian...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 April 1937
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.
The United Nations will spearhead our efforts to manage the new conflicts (that afflict our world)....Yes the principles of the United Nations Charter are worth our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
The United States is still seen as the leader at the world that wants to be free.
I'm going to be bringing people into the public diplomacy function of the department who are going to change from just selling us in the old USIA way to really branding foreign policy, branding the department, marketing the department, marketing American values to the world and not just putting out pamphlets.
90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
When we have dealt with bin Laden and his network we will then broaden the campaign to go after other terrorists all around the world.
They can't violate their agreements and then say we violated, what will you pay us to get out of the violation,
there is no indication whatsoever that Iraq has made the strategic decision to come clean and comply with its international obligation to disarm.
Cuba is an anachronism ... and history will catch up with them.
We're talking about the most deadly things one can imagine
We cannot be shocked into impotence because we're afraid of the difficult choices that are ahead of us,
We want to find a solution which will allow Pakistan to move its forces away from the border so that we have less tension at that border, less opportunity for some incident to spark a conflict between the two sides.